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One of the critical phases in software development is software testing. Testing helps with identifying potential bugs and reducing maintenance costs. The goal of automated test generation tools is to ease the development of tests by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Arghavan Moradi Dakhel , Amin Nikanjam , Vahid Majdinasab , Foutse Khomh , Michel C. Desmarais

Large Language Model (LLM) Agents leverage the advanced reasoning capabilities of LLMs in real-world applications. To interface with an environment, these agents often rely on tools, such as web search or database APIs. As the agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ivan Milev , Mislav Balunović , Maximilian Baader , Martin Vechev

Fuzzing is highly effective in detecting bugs due to the key contribution of randomness. However, randomness significantly reduces the efficiency of fuzzing, causing it to cost days or weeks to expose bugs. Even though directed fuzzing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiaotao Feng , Xiaogang Zhu , Kun Hu , Jincheng Wang , Yingjie Cao , Guang Gong , Jianfeng Pan

Jailbreak vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), which exploit meticulously crafted prompts to elicit content that violates service guidelines, have captured the attention of research communities. While model owners can defend…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dongyu Yao , Jianshu Zhang , Ian G. Harris , Marcel Carlsson

Testing with randomly generated inputs (fuzzing) has gained significant traction due to its capacity to expose program vulnerabilities automatically. Fuzz testing campaigns generate large amounts of data, making them ideal for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Maria-Irina Nicolae , Max Eisele , Andreas Zeller

In recent years, fuzz testing has proven itself to be one of the most effective techniques for finding correctness bugs and security vulnerabilities in practice. One particular fuzz testing tool, American Fuzzy Lop or AFL, has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Caroline Lemieux , Koushik Sen

Context: Exhaustive fuzzing of modern JavaScript engines is infeasible due to the vast number of program states and execution paths. Coverage-guided fuzzers waste effort on low-risk inputs, often ignoring vulnerability-triggering ones that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kishan Kumar Ganguly , Tim Menzies

Fuzzing has proven to be very effective for discovering certain classes of software flaws, but less effective in helping developers process these discoveries. Conventional crash-based fuzzers lack enough information about failures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Allison Naaktgeboren , Sean Noble Anderson , Andrew Tolmach , Greg Sullivan

In mutation-based greybox fuzzing, generating high-quality input seeds for the initial corpus is essential for effective fuzzing. Rather than conducting separate phases for generating a large corpus and subsequently minimizing it, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hridya Dhulipala , Xiaokai Rong , Aashish Yadavally , Tien N. Nguyen

Simulation-based virtual testing has become an essential step to ensure the safety of autonomous driving systems. Testers need to handcraft the virtual driving scenes and configure various environmental settings like surrounding traffic,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Zhisheng Hu , Shengjian Guo , Zhenyu Zhong , Kang Li

Test cases are essential for software development and maintenance. In practice, developers derive multiple test cases from an implicit pattern based on their understanding of requirements and inference of diverse test scenarios, each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Binhang Qi , Yun Lin , Xinyi Weng , Chenyan Liu , Hailong Sun , Gordon Fraser , Jin Song Dong

Coverage-guided fuzzing has been widely applied to address zero-day vulnerabilities in general-purpose software and operating systems. This approach relies on instrumenting the target code at compile time. However, applying it to industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Carmine Cesarano , Roberto Natella

In RESTful APIs, interactions with a database are a common and crucial aspect. When generating whitebox tests, it is essential to consider the database's state (i.e., the data contained in the database) to achieve higher code coverage and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hernan Ghianni , Man Zhang , Juan P. Galeotti , Andrea Arcuri

Testing-based methodologies like fuzzing are able to analyze complex software which is not amenable to traditional formal approaches like verification, model checking, and abstract interpretation. Despite enormous success at exposing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Shaobo He , Michael Emmi , Gabriela Ciocarlie

Kotlin is a relatively new programming language from JetBrains: its development started in 2010 with release 1.0 done in early 2016. The Kotlin compiler, while slowly and steadily becoming more and more mature, still crashes from time to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Daniil Stepanov , Marat Akhin , Mikhail Belyaev

With the wide use of Deep Learning (DL) systems, academy and industry begin to pay attention to their quality. Testing is one of the major methods of quality assurance. However, existing testing techniques focus on the quality of DL models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Weisi Luo , Dong Chai , Xiaoyue Run , Jiang Wang , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen

Verification is a critical process for ensuring the correctness of modern processors. The increasing complexity of processor designs and the emergence of new instruction set architectures (ISAs) like RISC-V have created demands for more…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yang Zhong , Haoran Wu , Xueqi Li , Sa Wang , David Boland , Yungang Bao , Kan Shi

Automated unit test generators, particularly search-based software testing tools like EvoSuite, are capable of generating tests with high coverage. Although these generators alleviate the burden of writing unit tests, they often pose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Amirhossein Deljouyi , Roham Koohestani , Maliheh Izadi , Andy Zaidman

Open-world video games present a broader search space than other video games, posing challenges for test automation. Fuzzing, which generates new inputs by mutating an initial input, is commonly used to uncover issues. In this study, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yusaku Kato , Norihiro Yoshida , Erina Makihara , Katsuro Inoue

The weakest precondition (WP) of a program describes the largest set of initial states from which all terminating executions of the program satisfy a given postcondition. The generation of WPs is an important task with practical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Daragh King , Vasileios Koutavas , Laura Kovacs